Lyman Frank Baum audiobooks


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by Lyman Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fantasy fiction novel for children written by American writer Lyman Frank Baum. A cyclone lifts the house of young Dorothy and falls and kills an evil ruler Wicked Witch of the East.  Dorothy is greeted by Kind ruler of The Good Witch of North and gifts a magical shoes of Wicked Witch...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by Lyman Frank Baum

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a fictional biography of what we know today as Saint Nicholas, the man of gifts. Lyman Frank Baum narrates the story of Claus, an orphan who was found, cared and brought up by Ak in the Burzee forests. As Claus grows up, he leaves forest and reaches Laughing valley, where he starts making toys and present t..

American Fairy Tales

American Fairy Tales

by Lyman Frank Baum

Though American Fairy Tales was written by the man of fantasy Lyman Frank Baum, these stories not only miss his trademark fantasy elements, but also take up a heavy tone which is unusual for a fairy genre. We must consider the fact that Baum might have targeted not only children but even adult readers as audience for this work since it was original..

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

by Lyman Frank Baum

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is an extended version of Lyman Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and this work narrates the kidnapping of Claus by pagan daemons. The story starts with kidnapping and moves on to the daemons' failed attempts to change the character of Claus to selfishness, envy and hatred. The story then moves on to how C..

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by Lyman Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This is one of only two of the original fourteen Oz books (the other being The Emerald City of Oz, to be illus..

Glinda of Oz

Glinda of Oz

by Lyman Frank Baum

Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum, published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of the original Oz series, which was later continued by other authors. Like most of the Oz books, the plot features a journey through some of the remoter regions of Oz; though in this case the pattern is doubled..

Aunt Jane's Nieces

Aunt Jane's Nieces

by Lyman Frank Baum

Aunt Jane's Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. Jane Merrick is a..

Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

by Lyman Frank Baum

Book 4 in the Mary Louise detective series for children. By L. Frank Baum writing as Edith Van Dyne. The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote t..